Options

From this week Year 9 will be thinking about which options to take for GCSE. As usual many of you will be considering taking Geography while others may be as yet undecided. It may be worth having a look at these videos (you may not be able to access them in school) to give you an idea of what Geography can offer you.


Also two further videos:
Going places with Geography 1
and
Going places with Geography 2
These are well worth a look if you are still making up your mind, though you may well have to view them at home as you tube is blocked in school.

Options Year 9

As the time grows closer for year 9 to choose their options, you may want to take note of the following:

"Geography in the widest sense of the concept remains to me the queen of sciences. It holds the key that unlocks the coherence of the physical world as its sister, history, unlocks that of mankind's occupation of it. Without geography's mapping of planet Earth, the work of chemists, biologists and physicists is disjointed, mere technique.

It is geography that applies common sense to the statistical hysteria of the climatologists. It is geography that brings global warming into context and applies the test of feasibility to whatever political priorities are deemed necessary. It is geography that explains why each of us is located where we are, in neighbourhood, nation, continent and planet, and how fragile might be that location. Without geography's instruction, we are in every sense lost - random robots who can only read and count."

Simon Jenkins in the Guardian newspaper today (full article here)

Of course I don't want to influence your decision...